Staff Directory

Rubin Bennett is the Chief High Commander and Sanitation Engineer at rbTechnologies. He has worked as an Information Technology professional since 1995. Since founding rbTechnologies in 1997, he has provided support and built servers for agencies of the Vermont State government, ISPs, and small businesses around the state and beyond.

Rubin has been awarded many industry certifications, including the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1, Cisco SMB Select certified partner, and many more from Industry leading companies such as RedHat, HP, Acer and more.

He was hooked on computers by the time he was 10, learning TRS-basic on his Color Computer II and TRS-80 Model 1. His early programming in TRS-Basic was saved to cassette tapes, and he fondly recalls countless hours spent 'listening' to those programs as they were saved and retrieved.

In the intervening years, Rubin has mastered many aspects of networking, computer and network security, programming (PHP, Perl, shell and windows scripting), routing, firewalling and Server systems. He continues to learn and eat humble pie on a daily basis, as new technologies come up and new ways of doing things supplant the old.

Rubin has been working primarily on Linux and Unix systems since 1997, starting with Red Hat 4.0 (Colgate). As a direct consequence of his initial indoctrination in Open Source software, Rubin suffers from a rare form of Tourette's syndrome where fits of uncontrollable cursing issue forth when he is exposed to anything other than casual contact with Windows operating systems.

Following a family tradition of civic mindedness, Rubin is on the CVCAC Board of Directors, is heavily involved in the organizational committee for the East Montpelier Fire District, and most recently was appointed to the East Montpelier Elementary School Board.

He can be reached at rbennett@thatitguy.com

Network Engineer, Microsoft Product Specialist

Andy joined rbTechnologies in November of 2007 after 10 years of web programming, self-employment and law school.

He has accumulated a plethora of Microsoft certifications (MCP, MCSE Windows NT 4, MSCE Windows 2000, MCSA Windows 2003 and some others he has forgotten). This indoctrination has built up in Andy a much higher level of tolerance for Microsoft products than Rubin enjoys.

Andy also brings a tremendous knowledge of computer networking and programming to our company, although the first programs that he wrote for his VIC-20 are not as user-friendly as folks today expect.

Linux, LDAP and SilverStripe programmer/ support specialist

Keith joined rbTechnologies in August of 2008, after nearly a decade as a contract and freelance I.T. professional. He brings to the team many years of experience as a contract programmer, and we take terrible advantage of his easy going manner and infinite patience.

Keith has excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, and a weakness for espresso that we may be to blame for.

I.T. Support Specialist

Chad joined the rbTech team in the spring of 2010 after a long stint as the owner of Montpelier Open Source. Chad brings incredible patience and communication skills, along with his technical talents, and we are very fortunate to have him! Chad is also a crazy soccer player and World Cup fan.